The problem
On large productions, especially unscripted and reality, content has to be watched, logged, and described before editorial can use it. Today that is human labor at scale.
- Big reality series bring in fifteen to twenty loggers working around the clock to watch and tag content during a rush.
- Dailies need to move from set to executives and editorial fast, with enough metadata to be useful, and the metadata is thin or missing.
- The footage flows through several tools, on-set capture, transfer, review, and editorial, and metadata is lost or re-created at each handoff.
- Manual logging is slow, expensive, and inconsistent across loggers.
Who it is for
- Post houses and production companies handling high-volume footage, particularly unscripted and reality.
- On-set and near-set teams moving dailies into the pipeline.
- Editorial teams that need rich, searchable metadata to start cutting.
How Ceivo solves it
Ceivo ingests footage, including from the edge through a deployed transfer server, and runs it through your chosen video understanding models to enrich the metadata automatically. Scene detection, descriptions, tagging, and embeddings are generated and written into the library.
Agents handle the logging that loggers do today: watching content and producing the structured descriptions editorial needs. The metadata persists in the library, so it carries through every later stage instead of being recreated.
Ceivo is designed to work alongside the tools already on set and in the pipeline rather than replacing them, so dailies can flow through, get enriched, and be served to editorial for the rough cut.
In practice
A reality series in full rush would normally seat fifteen to twenty loggers around the clock. Instead, Ceivo runs an agent that watches and logs the content as it lands, including footage indexed straight from the edge. The output is structured, searchable, and attached to each asset, so editorial can find what they need immediately. The producer runs a side-by-side check of agent logging against a human logger to validate quality, and the cost and turnaround difference is dramatic.
Why Ceivo
- Replaces the most expensive manual step in unscripted production with agents.
- Enriches dailies once, and the metadata carries through the whole pipeline.
- Works with the on-set and editorial tools you already use, including ingest from the edge.